Symposium 9 - Controlling syphilis - innovative approaches

Moderator(s)

• 

  Marcus Chen, PhD (he/him/his)

  Professor
  Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Health and Central Clinical School, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
• PZ

  Pingyu Zhou

Presentations:

• 10:05 – 10:25 CST

  Doxycycline Post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) & PrEP for Syphilis Prevention
  

  Invited Speaker: Annie Luetkemeyer, MD – Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, UCSF, San Francisco, CA
• 10:25 – 10:45 CST

  Whole genome sequencing for Treponema pallidum: how it can be applied to the real world to better understand syphilis outbreaks
  

  Invited Speaker: Michael Marks, MD PhD – London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
• 10:45 – 11:05 CST

  Recent studies and current understanding of the infectiousness of syphilis and novel PCR testing for Treponema pallidum including saliva
  

  Invited Speaker: Meiping Ye, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Shanghai Skin Disease Hospital
• 11:05 – 11:25 CST

  Strategies to prevent congenital syphilis
  

  Invited Speaker: Laura H. Bachmann, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Centers for Disease Control/DSTDP